THE TEUCHTER

THE TEUCHTER

by

Matt McGinn

So, we were up in Skye… and we met this big Teuchter.  So I says to him, ‘Hey Teuchter’… and when I picked myself up off the floor, I says, ‘This is a very beautiful island.’  He says, ‘Yes but it gets very lonely in the winter.’  He says, ‘Last December they arrested a man, they caught him kissing a horse.’  The judge sentenced him to eat three bales of hay.  He says, ‘I cannae eat hay.’  He says, ‘If it’s good enough for your girlfriend, it’s good enough for you.’